Successful students will be able to perform operations with rational, real, and complex numbers, using both numeric and algebraic expressions, including expressions involving exponents and roots. There are a variety of types of test items including some that cut across the objectives in this standard and require students to make connections and, where appropriate, solve contextual problems.

O1. Real numbers

a. Convert between and among radical and exponential forms of numerical expressions.

Convert between expressions involving rational exponents and those involving roots and integral powers.